The "Code Red" computer worm began spreading to systems around the world yesterday, infecting tens of thousands of machines, clogging some Internet traffic and forcing the Pentagon to shut down select ...

When computer security historians look back at 2001, the emergence of the Nimda and Code Red worms will likely sit close to the top of their significant events lists. Both worms were heralded as ...

Widespread use of security patches seems to have minimized the danger that could have been wreaked by the Code Red worm. Network administrators and security experts feared that the worm would bombard ...